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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. On this episode, our friend Tim Murtau

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Speaker 1: is here. He was the Trump twenty twenty comms communications director.

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Speaker 1: These days he's an executive vice president of comms for

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Speaker 1: National Public Affairs, which is a political consulting firm, and

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Speaker 1: he's got his own podcast. What is the podcast? Tim?

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Speaker 2: Podcast is called the Line Drive Podcast, and you can

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Speaker 2: find it wherever you get your podcasts. And it's a

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Speaker 2: look at the dissection of the twenty twenty four race

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Speaker 2: from some people who are inside the rooms when big

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Speaker 2: decisions were happening on presidential campaigns, and we take a

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Speaker 2: look at it and dissect it and tell you why

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Speaker 2: candidates are doing what they're doing.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the chance to be able to plug that. Buck.

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Speaker 3: Thanks the Line Drive Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Of course. Now tell me how's this election going so far?

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Speaker 1: You know you worked on twenty twenty for Trump. What

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Speaker 1: are you seeing right now? And take it anywhere you want?

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Speaker 1: Biden big picture? You know, what are you seeing? We're

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Speaker 1: in the is the summer of twenty three, what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it would surprise anybody that my

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Speaker 2: take is what everyone can see in the polls, that

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Speaker 2: this is Donald Trump's nomination to lose, certainly, and he

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Speaker 2: doesn't show any signs of loosening his grip on the nomination.

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Speaker 2: And I think what is less talked about because that

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Speaker 2: about is the fact that if you look at the

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Speaker 2: publicly available evidence, the public polls that are out there,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has been shown to be ahead in a

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Speaker 2: matchup with Joe Biden in the general election in a

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Speaker 2: couple of polls. Just in the last month, he's been

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Speaker 2: ahead in several different national polls, beating Joe Biden. And

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Speaker 2: that's important because in twenty sixteen, and especially in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: where I was I was now on the twenty sixteen campaign,

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Speaker 2: but let's talk about twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump was shown to be beating Joe Biden nationally in

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Speaker 2: a public poll exactly zero times. And in just the

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Speaker 2: last month, Donald Trump has been shown to be ahead

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Speaker 2: of Joe Biden in several different national polls, and that

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Speaker 2: is significant. And to me, that tells me that Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump not only is he in great shape, which is

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Speaker 2: election than he ever was in twenty twenty or twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Why is that, Well, I think it's a lot of things.

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Speaker 2: The economy is really hurting Joe Biden. And you know,

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Speaker 2: And of course that's sleight of hand because those are

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Speaker 2: jobs that are returning because of the opening up of

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Speaker 2: then you have the I mean, scandal after scandal after scandal,

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Speaker 2: I think to the average voter and his approval numbers

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Speaker 2: now this Hunter Biden stuff, the Devin Archer testimony of

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Speaker 2: Biden because now they've got the media in position where

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Speaker 2: you just can't ignore this anymore. They ignored the laptop

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Speaker 1: So this is now where I have to ask you

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Speaker 1: what happened in twenty twenty?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: You were on the campaign? Whatten? Now that we have

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Speaker 1: What do you say you were part of twenty twenty?

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Speaker 2: I honestly, I never saw enough evidence of actual fraud

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Speaker 2: I understand that. And they don't like mail in voting.

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Speaker 2: They don't like ballot harvesting because they are avenues for fraud.

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Speaker 2: But where it is permissible by law, it is silly

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Speaker 2: so the Republicans have to play those same games now.

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Speaker 2: Aside from those sorts of things, you know, I think

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Speaker 2: somehow say that a global pandemic that affected every single

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Speaker 2: which is preposterous, but that's what they did, and it

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Speaker 2: gave Joe Biden the easy excuse to never ever go

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Speaker 2: there were a lot of things that went on in

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Speaker 2: So it was about half again as twice as close

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Speaker 2: something that anybody discusses. But it was razor thin. It's

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Speaker 2: It's going to be tight again.

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Speaker 1: How formidable is the Democrat election apparatus that was able

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Speaker 1: Push forward? I would say, wheel forward in some ways,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden into the White House? What do they do right?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: Where where should we learn from our enemies? So to speak?

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Speaker 2: Well, they just they unabashedly crank out the votes. This

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Speaker 2: is not you know, it's less of a messaging game now.

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Speaker 2: And TV ads are still important and the message of

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Speaker 2: the campaign is important, and the day to day fight

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Speaker 2: is all very important, but it's less about persuading people

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Speaker 2: many times that means you know, actual the actual function

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Speaker 2: sign their names, and where it's permissible, even some places

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Speaker 2: where it's not, what's called ballot harvesting, which is, say,

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Speaker 2: for example, what Democrats love to do is you go

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Speaker 2: think a lot of our people, as I said, on principle,

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Speaker 2: and I think they're right that they don't want to

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Speaker 2: other side's going to do it, and if you lay

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Speaker 2: They're just better at it. They do it with no remorse,

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Speaker 2: I think, I guess that's probably the best way to

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Speaker 1: So they're ruthless. The things I learned from Democrats is

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Speaker 1: they're utterly ruthless in their pursuit of power, and they

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Speaker 1: have no compunction about playing dirty. And maybe there's something

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Speaker 1: something to be said for that. We'll come back in

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Speaker 1: a second. Speaking of playing dirty, the indictments against Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: just a second. But you know, what we've learned recently

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Speaker 1: Owning a good sized amount of gold, something that's reasonable

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Speaker 1: the Oxford Gold Group. Gold and silver can be the

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Speaker 1: We may well need both when things get crazy out

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